GTC will be presenting tick...tick...BOOM! based on the autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson on the following days and times:

Friday, January 23rd at 5 PM PSTSaturday, January 24th at 5 PM PSTFriday, January 29th at 5 PM PSTSaturday, January 30th at 5 PM PST

We will be performing at The Sphere Theatre located at 58 Barton 001221.

Feburary 2010

GTC will be presenting Rent by Jonathan Larson. We will be holding auditions for this production on Wednesday, February 3rd and Thursday, February 4th at our theater. Times and more information will be announced closer to the audition date, so keep at eye out.

We currently do not have enough people to do Rent unless we bring in some new actors, so please consider auditioning. We've done the show a couple times before and it's always been a good time.

Finally, after well over 6 months of incompleteness, I decided to be productive and stayed up way, way too late updating the GTC YouTube channel.

Now:

Avenue Q is uploaded in its entirety!

The annotations commentary on Spring Awakening is complete!

I hope to upload another show soon, but I have to take stock of what full videos I have. Trying not to set my sights too high -- my current "to do" is take the missing chunk of the SA video we have up from another video from that production and upload it. I'd also like to upload just a couple SA and Ave Q scenes from other casts, so perhaps even if you aren't in the videos posted you can still have a chance to see yourself on the YouTubes if you were in those productions.

A cast member just had to drop, and since we are short I'm holding replacement auditions Tomorrow, Saturday June 20th at 4 PM PST at the theater (58 Barton 001221) where I'm hoping to at the least find one more person to add to our cast. Should you be cast, you'd be expected to then join the cast at their rehearsal at 5 PST and the remaining dress rehearsals. You can find some more information on auditioning for GTC here. Hope to see you there!

I posted this at my personal journal and I thought I'd open it up for discussion here as well:

If you could reconstruct Spring Awakening -- bring back cut songs, cut certain songs, etc -- how would YOU change it? What do you think GTC should do with it -- are there things you think we could change or bring back to make it more entertaining for a text-only online audience?

Also, right now it's a 9 actor show (Melchior, Wendla, Moritz, Ilse, Hanschen, Ernst, Martha, Adult Men, Adult Women) and I don't want to add in a 10th actor but I'd really like to bring back Thea (in the script as it was, Wendla took most of her lines), so if anyone wants to help me brainstorm ways to do that that'd be great. (Basically, we have 9 people available throughout the show -- they don't necessarily need to be playing the same character at all times, but they can't (technically they can, but I'm not willing to write the script that way) play more than one character at once, and it helps if they have a decent chunk of time to switch characters if necessary)

Hope tomorrow goes well. Even if this is now one and a half shows canceled, I'm not feeling like our comeback is not successful -- all of the problems we're encountering that are making us cancel are Gaia problems and not problems with us, and that we were even able to get this very successful single show done in a timely manner shows that we have come a long way toward returning to where we were in the past in terms of efficiency.